On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 02:06:06AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sure, I fully understand the theoretical benefits to be had from Modularity > (though I still think that this is much more useful for LTS distributions > such as RHEL or CentOS than for Fedora). The issue is that it all breaks > down when modules depend on each other (and they already do), because of the > unavoidable versioning conflicts (Module A requires Module C version 1, > Module B requires Module C version 2, and only one version of Module C can > be installed) that bring us Module Hell, a.k.a., RPM Hell 2.0. And this > follows directly from the specification of the Modularity feature. And it > has already happened in practice (see the libgit2 chaos). Yeah, I agree that there's a problem with non-parallel-installable modules that aren't effectively leaves. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
